The American Woman's Home

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book domestic advice book

The American Woman's Home is a 19th-century domestic advice book by Harriet Beecher Stowe (co-written with her sister Catharine Beecher) that promotes Christian, moral, and efficient household management for middle-class American women.

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Label	Occurrences
The American Woman's Home canonical	3
The American Woman’s Home	1

Statements (46)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	book ⓘ domestic advice book ⓘ
addressesTopic	architecture and arrangement of the home ⓘ charity and social responsibility from the home ⓘ child-rearing practices ⓘ home education ⓘ nutrition and cooking ⓘ servant management ⓘ ventilation and heating ⓘ
advocatesRoleOf	woman as household manager ⓘ woman as moral guardian of the home ⓘ
associatedMovement	cult of domesticity ⓘ women's education reform ⓘ
author	Catharine Beecher ⓘ Harriet Beecher Stowe ⓘ
coAuthorRelationship	Catharine Beecher ⓘ surface form: Harriet Beecher Stowe and Catharine Beecher are sisters
countryOfOrigin	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
culturalSignificance	example of 19th-century American domestic ideology ⓘ important text in the history of American women’s education ⓘ key work in the tradition of domestic manuals ⓘ
genre	conduct literature ⓘ non-fiction ⓘ
hasPerspective	prescriptive and didactic tone toward women’s domestic duties ⓘ
hasTheme	education of women in domestic science ⓘ efficiency in domestic labor ⓘ moral household management ⓘ religious duty in the home ⓘ
historicalContext	Victorian era United States ⓘ
influencedBy	19th-century domestic science movement ⓘ Protestant Christian ideology ⓘ
intendedAudience	housewives ⓘ middle-class American women ⓘ
language	English ⓘ
mainSubject	Christian morality ⓘ domestic economy ⓘ household management ⓘ middle-class family life ⓘ women's domestic roles ⓘ
portrays	home as center of moral and religious life ⓘ
promotes	Christian values in the home ⓘ economy and thrift in household management ⓘ health and hygiene in domestic life ⓘ scientific principles of housekeeping ⓘ
publicationCentury	19th century ⓘ
relatedWork	A Treatise on Domestic Economy ⓘ
targetClass	white middle-class families in the United States ⓘ

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Harriet → notableWork → The American Woman's Home ⓘ

subject surface form: Harriet Beecher Stowe

Catharine Beecher → notableWork → The American Woman's Home ⓘ

Catharine Beecher → coAuthoredWork → The American Woman's Home ⓘ

A Treatise on Domestic Economy → relatedWork → The American Woman's Home ⓘ

this entity surface form: The American Woman’s Home